So this makes me suspect that this line
kernel: EIP: 0060:[<02123b4d>] Tainted:
is telling me that the extended instruction pointer (EIP) was in VMWare code when it went off in the wild blue yonder.
Was the vmware virtual machine active or idle?
I don't believe that I left the VMware application running, but can't guarantee that I didn't.
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